Microsoft back to its old tricks to get an edge on the competition.

[NullTuples]

5. That IS user friendly in Linux - You didn't have to recompile a thing!

Just kidding. Sort of. I've been using Linux since at least Slackware started, possibly earlier IIR. I'm actually amazed that I haven't had to compile anything I didn't want to in quite a few years.

But just as a reminder, you or someone you know probably does use a Linux distro that's mostly user friendly - at least enough to put it on millions of consumer devices. It's called Android and/or Chrome OS. Sure, they're incompatible with all other distros. But I'm nearly convinced the existence and success of Android & Chromebooks are what are now keeping Linux from being developed for extremely user friendly devices like phones, tablets, easy to use laptops and so on.